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shadowofaghost5 · 1 day

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My totally 100% canon interpretation of the portal accident

#yeah that’s canon #danny phantom

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shadowofaghost5 · 4 days

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Time and Time Again

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Time is a flat circle.

Vlad is at the edge of his teenage years, his two best friends at his side. They are studying the science of ghosts. What are they? What can they do? Where do they hide?

Time is a flat circle.

Vlad wears the flimsy protection of a labcoat. It will not be enough. The portal hums to life just before his eyes, glimmering emerald and liquid malachite inside.

It sings.

Time is a flat circle.

Vlad sees the green— all the way up into his nose, his eyes, his mouth. There is a world on the other side of the portal. It is green and ice-cold and it is as loud as the thunder and buzzing in his ears—and he can see all of it—

The door is shut on him. Vlad never makes it to the other side.

Time is a flat circle.

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Time is a flat circle.

Danny is on the cusp of his teenage years, his two best friends at his side. They watch his parents study the science of ghosts. What are they? What can they do? Where do they hide?

The questions remain unanswered.

Time is a flat circle.

Danny wears the flimsy protection of a hazmat suit. It will not be enough. The portal is a yawning, wide thing; Danny steps inside with caution.

The portal comes to life all around him, humming underneath his hands. It sings.

Time is a flat circle.

Danny sees the green— all the way up into his nose, his eyes, his mouth, absorbing into his bones and clinging to scraps of flesh that tear underneath its electric hands. There is a world on the other side of the portal. It is green and ice-cold and it is as loud as the thunder and buzzing in his ears—

He falls outside of the portal, burnt and bruised and unmade and remade all over again. Danny does not make it the other side.

Not yet, at least.

Time is a flat circle.

Someone drags him upstairs.

Time is a flat circle.

There is someone waiting to meet him, who was made into the same creature as he, by the same hands, who knows the same familiar faces.

Time is a flat circle.

There are a hundred eyes of a hundred separate creatures in another world, all observing quietly. There will be no intervention. The creation was inevitable. Their future meeting is equally so.

Time is a flat circle. Clockwork traces the rim of a thousand clock frames with his staff. The pair’s meeting is already over. Their meeting has yet to begun. He watches their introduction happen in present time in front of him, having already memorized their reactions to the other’s existence.

Time is a flat circle. The memory is folded up, filed, and the drawer shut.

#YOOOOO This is soo cool!!!!!#I LOVE the way you described both accidents it is soo good #like. it is death and you know they’re dying and it is so visceral with its gravity #but! it is also described in this dreamy somewhat magical way that so beautifully described the unknown-ness of the world of ghosts #And also those two! Because yeah they die but they dont become fully dead or fully ghost. They become something Other.#And I feel the descriptions really help with that #Those ”He never makes it to the other side.” partss!!! So good!!!#I always rejoice when I come across something that makes me excited about Vlad & Danny being halfas in a new way #this scratches the itch. Great job OP!!#danny phantom

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shadowofaghost5 · 16 days

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Spedran this for the anniversary! Can't believe Danny Phantom is 20 years old.

It's been very cathartic to me to be honest to see a show about a character who can't keep up with everything in his life, but he keeps trying anyway. It helps with that neat autistic burnout.

Happy anniversary Danny. You did good. I hope you got to visit the moon.

#OH!#I knew it was the anniversary but #for some reason it didn’t occur to me that it was the 20th anniversary!! Which is wild!!!#danny phantom

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shadowofaghost5 · 20 days

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two halves of a whole that don’t quite fit together

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#Themm!!!!#little nightmares

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shadowofaghost5 · 20 days

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#himb!!!!#my boyy!!!#omori

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shadowofaghost5 · 20 days

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, June 5, 1910

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shadowofaghost5 · 20 days

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A tale of Ba Sing Se.

#Oughhh #this gives suchh vibess #i don’t know how to explain it!!! it’s just! it feels so nostalgic somehow??#So good op!!#atla

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shadowofaghost5 · 23 days

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thinking about azula and zuko makes me go insane because of how their definitions of love are completely fucked but in the exact opposite ways.

like, azula views love as using someone because she hung onto ozai using her to mean that he loved her as a person and not just a tool. she does genuinely care for her friends and her brother but her way of showing that is to treat them like pawns and play head games with them because that was her childhood! that was what she romanticised in her head as idyllic and happy to cope! love is inherently based in fear with her- for someone to love you, they have to fear the consequences of not loving you, of not doing what is demanded. and if someone does not fear you, they do not love you. if you cannot control someone, it’s better for them to be gone entirely. to love someone is to live in fear of them, and to show love to someone is to control and use them.

meanwhile, zuko sees love as something that must be earned. love is as much about utility to him as it is to azula, but in completely different ways, both bc he didn’t receive very much of that “love” at all and because he had more exposure to, like, a parent that actually gave a shit. he was older when ursa left and clung to her while azula admired and clung to ozai her whole life. he is aware love is about acceptance and compassion, but he views it as something transactional, that has to be earned. love is something given as a reward and taken away as punishment. people love you if you are useful to them, and they do not when you aren’t. love is something you have to be exceptional for, and if you are not exceptional, then you do not deserve anything at all.

and the other thing is- azula clings onto her definition of love to the point it destroys her, actively rejecting the idea that she’s wrong. when, in her psychotic break, she hallucinates ursa saying she loves her, she can’t accept it. she can’t accept the idea she can be loved without being feared, she cannot accept the idea that you can love someone and not enable them, and she has to violently reject that, because if she doesn’t, then why has she done any of this? but zuko actively starts the process of getting a healthier relationship with, well, relationships as the show goes on. he's able to accept love he feels isn’t earned and not lash out at that kindness. he's learnt to be able to show his admiration and bond with people that he’s internalised don’t deserve that. he's absolutely not perfect at it, but he’s able to acknowledge how he was treated wasn’t okay and that treating others the same isn’t.

just. these two man. the characters of all time the way they compare and contrast in their response to trauma is masterful. genuinely beautiful storytelling.

#Oughh my babies #great analysis op #atla

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shadowofaghost5 · 23 days

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